BSBMGT605 - Leadership Across the Organization.

BSBMGT605 Provide leadership across the organisation Student Assessment Tasks
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Assessment Task 1: Written Questions
Task summary
This is an open book test, to be completed in the classroom.
A time limit of 2 hours to answer the questions is provided.
You need to answer all of the written questions correctly.
Required
 Access to textbooks/other learning materials
Timing
Your assessor will advise you of the date and time of this assessment.
Submit
 Answers to all questions
Assessment criteria
All questions must be answered correctly in order for you to be assessed as having completed the
task satisfactorily.
Re-submission opportunities
You will be provided feedback on their performance by the Assessor. The feedback will indicate if you
have satisfactorily addressed the requirements of each part of this task.
If any parts of the task are not satisfactorily completed, the assessor will explain why, and provide you
written feedback along with guidance on what you must undertake to demonstrate satisfactory
performance. Re-assessment attempt(s) will be arranged at a later time and date.
You have the right to appeal the outcome of assessment decisions if you feel that you have been
dealt with unfairly, or have other appropriate grounds for an appeal.
You are encouraged to consult with the assessor prior to attempting this task if you do not understand
any part of this task or if you have any learning issues or needs that may hinder you when attempting
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Written answer question guidance
The following written questions use a range of “instructional words” such as “identify” or “explain”,
which tell you how you should answer the question. Use the definitions below to assist you to provide
the type of response expected.
Note that the following guidance is the minimum level of response required.
Analyse – when a question asks you to analyse something, you should do so in in detail, and identify
important points and key features. Generally, you are expected to write a response one or two
paragraphs long.
Compare – when a question asks you to compare something, you will need to show how two or more
things are similar, ensuring that you also indicate the relevance of the consequences. Generally, you
are expected to write a response one or two paragraphs long.
Contrast – when a question asks you to contrast something, you will need to show how two or more
things are different, ensuring you indicate the relevance or the consequences. Generally, you are
expected to write a response one or two paragraphs long.
Discuss – when a question asks you to discuss something, you are required to point out important
issues or features, and express some form of critical judgement. Generally, you are expected to write
a response one or two paragraphs long.
Describe – when a question asks you to describe something, you should state the most noticeable
qualities or features. Generally, you are expected to write a response two or three sentences long.
Evaluate – when a question asks you to evaluate something, you should do so putting forward
arguments for and against something. Generally, you are expected to write a response one or two
paragraphs long.
Examine – when a question asks you to examine something, this is similar to “analyse”, where you
should provide a detailed response with key points and features and provide critical analysis.
Generally, you are expected to write a response one or two paragraphs long.
Explain – when a question asks you to explain something, you should make clear how or why
something happened or the way it is. Generally, you are expected to write a response two or three
sentences long.
Identify – when a question asks you to identify something, this means that you are asked to briefly
describe the required information. Generally, you are expected to write a response two or three
sentences long.
List – when a question asks you to list something, this means that you are asked to briefly state
information in a list format.
Outline – when a question asks you to outline something, this means giving only the main points,
Generally, you are expected to write a response a few sentences long.
Summarise – when a question asks you to summarise something, this means (like “outline”) only
giving the main points. Generally, you are expected to write a response a few sentences long.
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Assessment Task 1 Instructions
Provide answers to all of the questions below:
1. Discuss, in one paragraph, the concept of business ethics.
Business ethics are implied or expressed codes of principles applied as compulsory
obligations for the employees working in an organization to manage the dignity and effective
workplace atmosphere to success the business and effective cooperative behaviour between
the employees in the challenging and decision makes situations.
2. Discuss ethical leadership and its importance in supporting organisational values.
Leadership with the ethics valuation is worth for an organisation it manages the operations
and leads team members to manage the effective work performance. This creates a healthy
workplace environment and attracts more potential employees working to perform self-
satisfying activities to attain the goals of organisational development enhancing the
organisational values.
3. Discuss three characteristics of an ethical leader.
Ethical leaders are assumed to lead a team with effective and fair management skills, a leader
essential to include three features in his personality as:
Honesty
Honesty towards profession is very important for everyone, and a leader needs to deliver the
performance in transplant manner that reflects the better understanding and ethical personally
of leader for the team.
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Encouraging
A leader always makes efforts to influence the skill of the team members and leads the team
by encouraging their talents and skills for better result of the business. A team performing
needs motivation and encouragement from the leader contentiously and this is only possible
if leader have effective planning to encourage the talent and skills of the members.
Fair and justice
A leader needs to manage the team of many members with different mind-set and thinking;
due to this many conflicts are potential to arise. A leader needs to include the practise and
quality of fair and justice treatment to solve the intern-team conflicts. Because conflicts are
possible to lead failure of entire team hence a leader needs to deal with effective fair and
equal treatment for all in case of organisational issues and highest priority for a leader in
conflicts is to avoid favouritism and to deliver best decision in favour of the right and
organisational development.
4. Give, and explain, three benefits of ethical leadership.
Ethical guidelines are very profitable for the entire management of an organisation. Leaders
can enjoy many benefits from business ethics, and ethical leadership is possible to facilitate
an organisation in many ways. Some of these are:
I. Helps to create effective and healthy workplace environment or workplace
culture supporting the development of organisation with effective team
performance.
II. An ethical leader follows the legal guidelines and equal treatment for all the
employees in the organisation, this lead the atmosphere of quality and
justice reducing the cases of conflicts, harassment, bullying, or any other
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issues. This represents the organisational strong position with effective
legal implication and practising.
III. An ethical leader represents that team is actively taking parts in the decision
making and many other challenging situations. A leadership opening ways
to leaders leading with team support helps to make better decision. Ideas
from others reflect the effective flow of information and communication
among the employees and different teams in an organisation.
5. Discuss four (4) styles of leadership and the impact each of the identified styles on
organisational culture.
A leader’s success is majorly depending over the style selected to lead the team in critical and
challenging situation. A leader selects leadership style on two basis; task-oriented and
people-oriented. Some of these styles include both characteristics as:
1) Democratic or participative Leadership Style
It is an ideal style of leading the team with task importance and valuation; here leader
manages the team with cooperation and guides team with effective employees support and
suggestions. All employees’ have equal right to take participate in all activities of the
organisation, it helps to build cooperative atmosphere in an organisation.
2) Charismatic Leadership Style
A leader leading the team by focusing the employee’s behaviour and encouraging the
particular behaviour of the employees by applying method of expressive communiqué,
persuading and force of persona is using charismatic leadership. These leaders motivate the
groups to get things done or helping to improve the manner certain things are done helps to
affect the team supporting organisational culture. These sometimes lead issues, as
overdependence of the members on team leader.
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3) Laissez-faire Leadership Style
Using the “Let-it-be” method is people oriented leadership allowing the employees to
perform the activities with application of own methods and perceptions. Employees are fully
liable to perform the actions in ethical manner with less direction and control from the
leaders. These employees are guided in some critical situations otherwise employees are free
to make effective and valuable decision on the bases of their skills. This represents the free
and non-ambiguous environment of working in the organisation.
4) Transformational Leadership Style
Most admirable style leading the team with effective skills of transforming behaviour
according to the need of an organisation is Transformational Leadership Style. This style
helps to build highly skilled employees focusing to manage people performance according
the changes in the organisation. Here employees are able to manage their behaviour and
performance in the base of organisational changes and it create the atmosphere of effective
dependency and high understanding between the leader and its followers.
6. Explain how a charismatic leader can assist in ensuring that a company’s vision is
implemented.
Charismatic expert intensely trusts on the hypothesis that leaders have an emotive impression
on their supporters through effective and influencing behaviour and personal characteristics.
Charismatic leaders are visionary, and their leadership style using the emotional impact on
the followers, role-model behaviour, effective communication skills and powerful language
are able to assist in ensuring that a company’s vision is implemented.
7. Discuss at least three strategies that can be used to encourage employee
participation in decision-making.
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Employees taking active part in decision making of for an organisation reflect the healthy and
cooperative workplace culture of an organisation, there are many ways to motivate the
employees for decision making participation. Below are three ways helpful for a leader to
involve employees to make decisions.
 Suggestion Box
 Surveys
 Questionaries
8. Discuss three strategies that a leader can use for building trust and confidence
with colleagues.
Leaders are role-model for the followers and employees have emotional attachment with
the leader. No leadership theory is helpful for the leaders if employees and colleagues
have trust issues with the leader, hence tryst and confidence from the colleagues and
followers is very important for effective leading. Following are the methods useful, for a
leader for building trust and confidence with colleagues:
 Be a good listener
 Be honest and supportive
 Create personality model of leader that one wants back from the team
9. Explain the importance of leadership in ensuring that work health and safety
legislation is met.
An organisational safety and health management system needs to be functional and effective,
leading the safety and health on the priority. The achievement of occupational safety and
health management (OSH) based on leaders´ behaviour when it comes to developing and
transposing visions and strategies on OSH. Leading the tea, with effective management is not
enough but awaking the team about the safety procedures and using the safety measures to
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protect the employees from hazardous. Any employee facing the health risk is obligation of
others protect and this behaviour is only possible if leader leads the team with management.
10. Give five (5) reasons why it is important to follow anti-discrimination law and
provide equal opportunity, giving a short explanation of each.
An organisation consist many members of different race, gender, class and religions. Every
Employee working in an organisation is entitled to get fair treatment of equality without any
discrimination from the management and other staff members. Application of equality and
anti-discrimination laws in an organisation helps in effective management at:
1. Fair treatment- In case of any conflicts or intern-management issues anti-
discrimination law and equal opportunity laws helps the management to take justice
and fair treatment decisions in an organisation.
2. Equal opportunity- employees are equal and have equal access over the facilities and
opportunities in an organisation. Each employee have equality to represent own ideas
favour the growth of the organisation.
3. Discrimination- Favouritism or stooping any person from access to services or growth
opportunities on the base if gender, caste, class is against the equality and application
of equality and anti-discrimination laws in an organisation helps
victim to claim for the equal treatment.
4. Sexual harassment- Expressed or implied behaviour of sexually harassment with any
male of female is challenging for a person expressing it. Application of equality and
anti-discrimination laws in an organisation helps to reduce the sexual harassing
activities in an organisation.
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Assessment Task 1 Checklist
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performance Comments
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